wooly

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  1. adjective Variant of woolly.

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  • We'll have new tenants in no time You're really fixing the haunted flat, son Borislav changed his winter boots for his wooly house slippers. —  FSF,January2007
  • She was wooly-headed, extremely pretty, silly, but a good person. —  Martha Grimes - The Old Silent
  • While accusing education reformers of being wooly-headed romantics … Mr. Murray conjures up a romantic vision of his own. —  National Review Online
  • That wooly-headed notion proceeded from a mind that was swept clean of metaphysics and filled to the brim with of the cotton candy of a 19th century kind of political wishful thinking and cloudy political mysticism. —  RenewAmerica
  • After decades of watching their extravagant, wooly-headed, far-left programs languish in never-never land, Democrats are now realizing their once-forlorn hopes for a return to the good old days. —  The Moderate Voice
 

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